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Re:How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural lang... by jpttsn on Thursday April 20, 2017 @03:11PM (#14159832)
Trump's media prominence means Trump is mentioned a lot in any topic.
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Re:How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural lang... by jerf on Thursday April 20, 2017 @03:23PM (#14159948)
And I'd note this is not a political point; it's a base-rate comment [1]. Political comments will tend to have other political topics arise in them, and it would require more detailed analysis to know if there is any true signal here. (Not necessarily a lot more detailed... just more than an eyeball glance.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate

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